![]() ![]() Essentially the drive is expecting to have a particular pin pulled high or low to tell it that it is the one being addressed. ![]() It is possible that if they were the secondary disk in a system and you had a USB caddy that does not support the cable and jumper selected primary or secondary mode then it may simply not "see" the drive. The main thing though is that IDE disks did have a Primary and Secondary jumper, sometimes also called "master" and "slave", that dictated which connector on the cable you fitted them to and which one showed up to the system as the primary disk. There were some oddities in terms of sizes and LBA modes, but nothing that would break anything or prevent it from working. There is no real reason why an IDE disk would not work, but there are some reasons why there might be quirks. ![]()
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